Thirty-six bloody breakthroughs

On this day, when the sun was setting in the west, the soldiers of Li Ling's troops were armed with bows and crossbows, and vigilantly just walked out of the Dongjunji Pass and entered the barren hill area. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Suddenly, a small group of cavalry rushed out from the side. Li Ling shouted loudly: "Release the arrow!"

The sergeants fired a thousand arrows, the enemy cavalry in front fell in response to the arrows, and the rear cavalry turned around and fled.

Li Ling shouted, "Catch it alive!" and the soldier switched to shooting the body and legs of the horse. The horses fell to the ground, and the rebels were beheaded, and only one prisoner was captured. After interrogation, he learned about the enemy's situation, which further boosted the morale of Li Ling and the soldiers. The enemy army has lost more than 30,000 cavalry in many battles, and is afraid that we have reinforcements, so they dare not make a desperate bet, and now their morale is not high. Moreover, Li Ling led his troops to retreat back to the Han territory, and the enemy did not dare to chase after him. Shan Yu means: chase to fifty miles away from the Han border, and withdraw if you can't catch up.

At night, under the starlight, the two sides camped more than a mile apart, and both sent troops to stand guard on high places and be vigilant for defense. After midnight, General Han Yannian of Li Ling's department patrolled the post and found that a soldier standing guard fell asleep with an arrow in his arms. He woke him up angrily with a whip and reprimanded: "How can you fall asleep standing guard?" The soldier hurriedly knelt down and begged for mercy: "My lord, I am really too tired!" General Han snorted and scolded unrelentingly, and the soldier cried and cried when he was beaten.

In the silence of the night, the sound of General Han's scolding and the cries of the soldiers spread far and wide. When the Hun sentry heard this, he wrote down the location, quietly called two people to change into Han military uniforms, sneaked into the sentry post, saying that he was replacing him to stand sentry, and robbed the soldiers who had been trained and beaten to the Hu camp. After being coerced and lured, the soldiers surrendered to the Hu army, saying: Li Ling's military headquarters has no backup, the soldiers have suffered many casualties, there are only more than 800 people with combat ability, and the news that arrows and crossbows and other weapons are about to run out.

This gave the Marquis Da Danyu, who was about to retire, an injection of heart boosters, and he was overjoyed. Shan Yu immediately summoned his subordinates and discussed overnight...... The soldiers divided into two routes and took advantage of the night to quietly occupy the top of the mountains around Li Lingbu, and surrounded them to the death.

At the beginning of the morning light the next day, the enemy cavalry shouted to the sky: "Li Ling Han Yannian surrender quickly, you are surrounded...... Then, the Xiongnu launched a general attack on Li Lingbu.

Arrows cover the sky and the sun, weapons are strong, and men and horses roar through the heavens and the earth. The soldiers on both sides fell one after another, and stepped forward one after another, fighting together...... Li Ling led all the soldiers to brave the rain of arrows from all directions and fought bloody battles all the way, and broke through with difficulty...... Behind this, there were tens of thousands of cavalry attacking, and in front of it there was a dense interception of the Hun cavalry vanguard troops, and if you want to return to the Han land, you have to fight hard.

For a whole day, the only 500,000 arrows and crossbows of Li Ling's department were finished, and the swords were also broken one after another, and the soldiers had to dismantle the baggage parts as weapons. When night came, the enemy's attack was slow, and Li Ling led his troops to mine stones on the hills to make weapons. Li Ling sat in the night, looking at the remaining more than 500 battle-hardened soldiers and a few captured enemy horses, all of them covered in blood and exhausted. Now that the weapons have been exhausted, the food has been cut off, and there are no reinforcements, our army has fallen into a desperate situation. Suddenly a southerly wind blew, and it was the wind of my great Han land. Experience has taught him that it is less than a hundred miles from dry land. He looked at the south, thinking of the imperial order, of his family, of his oath...... He took a horse in his hand for his own use, and ordered his men to kill all the remaining horses, so that everyone could have a full meal. Li Ling turned over and got on his horse, and when the soldier saw it, he immediately wanted to go with him, but he stopped him and said: "Take the order from the head, one person is enough!"

After a while, the Hun camp was in chaos, and soon it became calm again.

In the middle of the night, Li Ling walked back with difficulty with a broken knife in his hand. Han Yannian stepped forward to support him and asked, "How is it?"

"We must break through tonight! Otherwise, no one will want to go back!" He looked at the hundreds of soldiers sitting around who could fight, and said with a bitter smile, "We people, if each of us has ten arrows and crossbows in our hands now, we can fight with the talkers tomorrow, and we can break through and go home." But now—"

It turned out that he was going to explore the enemy, and the most important thing was to kill Shan Yu and avenge his family and country. He rode around quietly, scouted the breakout place, came to Shan Yu's station, and tried to sneak in and kill him. Who knew that the guy was very well guarded, and as soon as he approached the enemy camp, he was discovered. He fought with the enemy soldiers for a while, abandoned his horse and hid in the shadows. After the enemy army calmed down, he returned in the middle of the night.

"You're right!" General Han agreed, "Your harassment, their departments can't figure out the situation, and they will not dare to boldly besiege us." Let's divide the soldiers who can fight into two ways and break through separately. ”

Someone handed him a piece of raw horse meat. He asked, "Have the soldiers eaten it?"

"I've eaten it all, and now I'm much stronger!" everyone said.

He chewed on the horse meat in his mouth, thinking of a way to break through. He told everyone about the situation and thoughts of his investigation, and everyone agreed with his idea. Li Ling said to the wounded soldiers: "When the dawn they find out that we are gone, they will not kill you, and you may still live." As long as you live, you can go home and serve our big man!"

Li Ling and the others divided their subordinates and capable soldiers into multiple squads and let them break through separately. He gave a simple order to all the soldiers who broke through: "Everyone aim south, look for the enemy's weak spots, and quietly pass over." ”

In the vast darkness of the second half of the night, Li Ling and Han Yannian quietly left the camp with their soldiers and rushed down the hill, they marched quickly to the south, and several small groups of troops unconsciously passed through the enemy's defense area in front of them, and quickly rushed south.

When it was almost dawn, the Xiongnu Shan Yu got the news and immediately organized thousands of cavalry to catch up with them in the south. The enemy's cavalry was much faster than Li Ling's infantry, and when it was dawn, they caught up with Li Ling and Han Yannian and the more than a dozen soldiers who followed them.

They heard the shouts behind them getting closer and closer, and Han Yannian immediately turned around and roared and rushed into the enemy ranks, slashing left and right...... Li Ling and a dozen soldiers desperately resisted...... They were armed with short weapons, unable to withstand the fierce and swift archers. Soon Han Yannian was killed in battle, and Li Ling and the two living soldiers were surrounded by enemy troops.

The enemy shouted: "Capture alive! Li Ling surrender quickly!"

"My life is over!" Li Ling saw that he couldn't break through, shouted, and committed suicide with a knife. A soldier stepped forward to grab a knife and shouted: "The general can't!"

"Get out!" Li Ling kicked him away. He took the opportunity to crawl into the enemy's bush......

"General Li Mo Ke!" The Xiongnu sent an envoy to shout to persuade him to surrender, he pointed to the surrounding soldiers and horses, and said in a tone of pity and pleading: "General Li surrender! The defeat of the army is really not your fault! Your wounded soldiers have all been captured, and if the general does not surrender, they will all be killed!"

Shan Yu fought with Li Lingbu along the way, witnessed Li Ling's courage and bravery, although he lost more than 30,000 cavalry, but he admired him very much. He ordered his subordinates Li Ling, who was destined to live, to let the envoys come to persuade him.

Thirty-seven Historians

Under the blood-stained sun, the entire armor was soaked in the blood of the enemy and his own wounded blood, Li Ling, who listened to the words of the envoy and bit his lips tightly, looked speechlessly at the Hun cavalry all over the mountains around him, as well as several of his subordinates who did their best and were covered in blood and wounded, he thought that the hundreds of wounded soldiers who stayed in the hill camp and had been battle-hardened would be killed by the murderous Hu army cavalry because of me...... He looked south at the border of the Han Dynasty, his eyes were wet, blood was flowing from his lips between his teeth, and the short knife in his hand fell on the stone at his feet, splashing angry sparks.

"Tie it up!" Shan Yu gave an order, and the foot soldier stepped forward to tie up Li Ling Wuhua and put him on the horse.

And Marquis Da Shan Yu happily: "Military Division!"

Wei Lu immediately: "The minister is here!"

"Be kind to the wounded soldiers of the Han army, give them food, drink, and heal the wounded!"

"Yes!"

And Marquis Da Shan Yu took Li Ling back to the camp for interrogation, but Li Ling bowed his head and said nothing, Li Ling thought: "Shan Yu my son, I must wait for my soldiers to recover, and then find an opportunity to cut off your head!

Shan Yu looked at Li Ling's blood-stained armor, and the wounded blood from his legs stained the ground red, and said to Wei Lu: "Military advisor, take General Li to heal his wounds, and serve him well!"

"Yes!" Wei Lu instructed the soldiers, "take the general down to heal his wounds!"

After the soldiers escorted Li Ling down, Shan Yu said to Wei Lu: "Take strict care! Get up and go back to Hala and Lin immediately!"

After capturing Li Ling alive, he withdrew his troops and met all of them. The 300 soldiers who retreated separately from Li Ling escaped from the Hu realm, marched south day and night, and returned to Juyan City of the Han Dynasty half a month later. The leaders of Juyan's garrison asked General Li Ling for news, and they all said that Li Ling had been killed in battle. The head of Juyan immediately rushed to report to the imperial court.

Li Ling kicked away and followed, slipped out of the enemy encirclement and hid behind a hill, and waited until evening before setting off. Two days later, he rushed to his house in the morning and changed into Han clothes. In order to report the news as soon as possible, he took a shortcut and went straight to Jiuquan County. More than ten days later, he rushed to his destination and reported the news that Li Ling had committed suicide and died. The next day, a wounded soldier who saw Li Ling being tied up by Shan Yu and taken away on horseback was only wounded in the arm, he bribed the Hu soldiers who were guarding him and escaped, and also rushed to Jiuquan County to report that Li Ling was tied up and taken away.

When Lu Bode, the supervisor of Jiuquan, learned of the two unfortunate news of Li Lingbu's department, he did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent troops with two witnesses to report to the court.

At this time, Li Guangli, who sent troops to Jiuquan to fight against the Xiongnu generals, led his troops to ride into the Tianshan Hudi for thousands of miles, and did not encounter the main force of the Xiongnu, but only encountered a small group of cavalry, and returned without finding the main force. They didn't know that the main force of the Xiongnu was dragged by Li Lingbu and relieved them of the siege.

Almost at the same time, the imperial court received reports from Zhangye County and Jiuquan County about Li Lingjun.

Emperor Wu was faced with three pieces of news: first, Zhangye County reported that Li Lingbu led his army to break through the siege, second, Li Ling had committed suicide when he was surrounded by enemy troops, and third, Li Ling was surrounded by enemy troops and captured. There is also news from Xihe that Li Ling fled back to Han from time to time. I don't know which one is right.

In the early days of Emperor Wu, he looked at the civil and military officials in front of him and asked, "Ladies and gentlemen, that news is the most correct?"

These officials, you look at me, I look at him, and they don't say anything, as if the emperor is asking about air. Gongsun Ao, a veteran who was standing in front of the generals, bowed his head and retreated.

Emperor Wu saw it and asked, "Old General Gongsun, tell me about it!"

Gongsun Ao looked up at the emperor, and the colleagues behind him pushed him and reminded him softly: "The emperor asked you!"

"I don't know this, I don't know," he replied, at a loss.

Some people laughed and immediately shut up.

"Gongsun is proud to listen to the order!" Emperor Wu said majestically.

Gongsun hurriedly bowed and listened to the order: "The minister is here!"

"I order you to immediately bring people into all parts of Xihe to investigate this matter, and there must be no mistakes!" said the emperor.

For more than a month, after the treatment of the Xiongnu shaman, Li Ling's upper wound was healed. But he kept thinking in his heart, how to go back to Dahan. On this day, Marquis Da Dan Yu discussed with the military advisor to interrogate Li Ling. This was the first interrogation of Li Ling in more than a month since he was taken to the capitals of Hala and Lin. In fact, he persuaded Li Ling to surrender to the Xiongnu.

When Li Ling was brought down to Shan Yu's big tent, Shan Yu immediately asked Wei Lu to loosen his bonds. And personally sat down, and asked with concern: "Is General Li okay with his injury?"

Li Ling didn't even look at him and didn't speak.

Wei Lu immediately pretended to say to Li Ling: "Da Dan Yu asked you something!"

"Hmph!" Li Ling snorted and ignored him.

"Don't be ignorant!" Wei Lu said arrogantly, "who are you! You are a prisoner! If it weren't for our great admiration for your talents, taking care of you, treating your wounds, and treating all your wounded subordinates, how would you be now!"

At the mention of the wounded soldiers, Li Ling thought about it, and finally spoke: "Thank you Shan Yu!"

Wei Lu looked at Li Ling and asked, "General Li, do you remember your promise!"

Li Ling asked Wei Lu angrily: "You deserve to mention to me, what is a promise?"

Shan wanted to talk to Li Ling calmly, but seeing him like this, if he continued like this, it would be embarrassing. I'll have to find a way to get him to surrender. So he said to Wei Lu: "Military advisor, let General Li go down and continue to think about it!"

Gongsun Ao led the holy order to the border pass to pay a secret visit, he visited the Li Ling soldiers who broke through the siege and came back, and learned that Li Ling sent troops this time, and the lone army went deep, and wiped out more than 30,000 of the 80,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu Shan Yu with 5,000 infantry. Resisting the enemy with weakness, containing the main force of the Xiongnu, avoiding the pressure of Li Guangli's army in Xihe, and also avoiding the disaster of the people on the border of Xihe. He thought about it again, the emperor asked him to verify whether Li Ling was alive or dead. Some of the people of Li Lingbu said that he was alive, and some said that he was dead.

At that time, on the border between the Han and the Xiongnu, after countless tug-of-war between the two sides in the past hundred years and the relationship between the two sides for many years of relaxation and several years of conquest, the people of the Han and Xiongnu on the border have merged with you, me, and you. Messages from both sides were passed on by informants on each side. Gongsun Ao found out that Li Ling was alive through an informant and was now helping the Xiongnu train his troops.

Gongsun Ao rushed back to Chang'an at night and secretly played the saint: Li Ling is alive and is now helping the Xiongnu train troops. Because Li Guangli, the general of the Xihe expedition, is the brother of Li Niangniang, the emperor's favorite concubine, he can't be offended.

Emperor Wu was very angry when he saw the secret music, and when the military officials in the palace learned that Li Ling surrendered to the Xiongnu, they discussed it one after another. Sima Qian lowered his head and thought, there must be something strange about this.

Emperor Wu asked him expressionlessly at this time: "Sima Aiqing, what do you think about Li Ling's surrender to the Xiongnu?"

Sima Qian immediately knelt down and said: "Your Majesty: Weichen thinks that General Li Ling, the cavalry captain, went deep into the territory of the Xiongnu with a lone army of 5,000 soldiers, resisted the enemy head-on, and eliminated more than 30,000 of the 80,000 cavalry led by the Xiongnu. Containing the main force of the Xiongnu, it avoided the pressure of General Li's troops in Xihe, and also avoided the disaster of the people on the border of Xihe. This is a weak attack on the strong, and the merit outweighs the fault. I beg your majesty to be cautious and think twice!"

Sima moved his head and fell to the ground.

"You say I'm not cautious about this?" Emperor Wu asked him with a glare.

Sima Qian did not raise his head, but as a historian, he could not lie when others lied! So he said: "Your Majesty, Li Ling has only 5,000 soldiers, and after being surrounded, there are only 500 capable warriors left, who have no food or drink, no arrows, and no reinforcements. Although Li Ling was defeated, it was also worth offsetting. ”

Emperor Wu's face gradually changed. Some of the civil and military officials were sweating with Sima Qian, and some shook their heads with sneer.